CONTRIBUȚII LA STUDIUL PROPRIETÃȚILOR BIOELECTRICE A ZONELOR DE ACUPUNCTURÃ

The research has as a goal the investigation of the bioelectricalbehaviour of the acupunctural areas in order to obtain a scientific substantiation of the correspondencebetween the extreme – eastern medical tradition and the academical medicine. It isobvious that the Chinese traditional medicine knows a certain mechanism of ensurance ofhomeostasis of the organisms, a mechanism represented, according to the Chinese medicaltradition, by the net of acupuncture points and meridians. The experimental data presented inthis paper lead to the discovery of the fact that this net works as the fourth system ofintegration, the electrical – regulator one. The maintenance of the internal homeostasis of thesuperior organisms and their adaptation to the environment is ensured by the neuro – endocrineand circulatory systems through a mechanism described by Selye under the name of theUncertain General Syndrome of Adaptation represented by the hypothalamo – hypophyso –corticoadrenal axis. The evolution of these systems and of their mechanisms can be supervisedon the basis of the cortisole concentration. The research emphasized the direct proportionalitybetween the cortisone levels and the variation of the electrical values of the acupuncture points,a fact that demonstrates the involvement of the net of acupuncture points and meridians in themaintenance processes of the homeostasis, control, adjustment and adaptation of the livingorganisms. Additionally, the analysis of the bioelectrical behavior of the acupuncture areas ledto the conclusion that the morpho – functional substrate of this net is the conjunctive tissue.The physical – chemical properties of the interstitial connective tissue assures its working as anelectro – regulator system on one side and as a harmonization agent of the neuro – endocrineand circulatory systems on the other side, this aspect being to be developed in a future paper.